Brendan Walsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3880164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendan Walsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendan |
| FAMILY NAME | Walsh |
| SIGNATURE | WALSH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Variation in day surgery rates across Irish public hospitals
Endowed Schooling in Ireland: A History of Deceit
Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, various charitable, endowed or “free” schools were established in Ireland with a view to providing schooling, initially for children of primary and later secondary school age, the latter being the subject of this article. Sometimes these schools were state initiatives, such as the parish and diocesan schools, established by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I respectively, but mostly they were voluntary unde…
More sinn’d against than sinning? The intermediate system of schooling in Ireland 1878–1922
The Intermediate System of schooling, which operated in Ireland between 1878 and 1922, has, generally, been considered limited in ambition and as having generated a culture of high-stake terminal examinations. This article seeks a more nuanced understanding of the system and proposes that, despite an evolving system of secondary provision in Ireland prior to 1878, the Intermediate System provided an armature for a national system, prompted the aw…
The Intermediate Education (Ireland) Bill 1878: “A very imperfect attempt to aid Irish intermediate education”? 1
Discussions bearing upon the provision of intermediate (post-primary) schooling in Ireland in the nineteenth century were inextricably interwoven with debates regarding Catholic autonomy there. The establishment, in 1878, of the intermediate system, cannot be understood outside the context of Irish Catholic grievances, imagined or otherwise. This article excavates that theme within the context of the parliamentary debate that resulted in the pass…
‘Nobody Will Even Remember It’: An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (I)
'Nobody Will Even Remember It': An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (I)* Brendan Walsh Background This article seeks to review the contribution of teaching religious (sisters, priests and brothers) to schooling in Ireland between the 1940s and late 1970s, and principally employs the oral testimony of those who were taught by, and later taught with or as, members of religious congregations. Its purpose is to sh…
‘Nobody Will Even Remember It’: An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (II)
'Nobody Will Even Remember It': An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (II)* Brendan Walsh The impact of free education What the experience of working with the religious was like for their lay colleagues between the 1940s and the late 1970s largely depends upon time and place. Bryan MacMahon recalled how in the 1940s and 1950s a Brother would, each year, visit the school 'seeking postulants' and ask 'the children…
Schooling, the Gaelic League, and the Irish language revival in Ireland 1831–1922
In the two decades preceding Irish independence the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge, founded 1893), an organisation dedicated to the revival of the Irish language, campaigned to persuade both national and intermediate commissioners of education to reposition the language within the curriculum to reflect what the League believed was both its cultural significance and educational value. The campaign represented a fundamental principle in the risi…
Failure to take-up public healthcare entitlements: Evidence from the Medical Card system in Ireland
While population health and welfare can be improved through the provision of non-cash benefits, such as free healthcare, many welfare improving schemes have low rates of take up amongst those eligible for such a benefit. One interesting example of this is the Medical Card scheme in Ireland. Medical Cards are a non-cash benefit that provide free primary, community, and hospital care, as well as heavily subsidised prescriptions drugs, for those bel…
Irish schools, republicanism and World War One: Remembrance and memory making
This article examines the relationship between aspects of patriotism and militarism as fostered in Irish schools in the early twentieth century and their influence on past pupils who enlisted in the British Armed Forces during World War One (hereafter War), or fought as republican insurgents during the Easter Rising, 1916 (hereafter the Rising). It suggests that the complex influences of schools on pastmen who fought has been neglected and conclu…
The “Haunting Silence”: Autobiographical accounts of secondary teaching in twentieth-century Ireland
This article employs five teacher autobiographies in an attempt to examine their contribution to the history of teaching in Ireland. The article argues that such autobiographies provide significant insights into the history of the classroom and often represent subversive and disruptive narratives. As such they represent a valuable but overlooked source
Conindex: Estimation of Concentration Indices
Concentration indices are frequently used to measure inequality in one variable over the distribution of another. Most commonly, they are applied to the measurement of socioeconomic-related inequality in health. We introduce the user-written command conindex, which provides point estimates and standard errors of a range of concentration indices. The command also graphs concentration curves (and Lorenz curves) and performs statistical inference fo…
Children of Wrath: Possession, Prophecy and the Young in Early Modern England
Decomposing socioeconomic inequalities in childhood obesity: Evidence from Ireland
The Persistence of High Unemployment in a Small Open Labour Market: The Irish Case
This chapter contains an overview of the Irish unemployment problem. It starts with a review of existing research and presents further analysis of unemployment in a small, open labour market. The reasons for the persistence of high unemployment and the recent improvement in the labour market situation are discussed. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the lea…
Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment: Volume I: Issues Papers
Journal Article Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment: Volume I: Issues Papers Get access Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment: Volume I: Issues Papers. Edited by (Susan) Horton, (Ravi) Kanbur and (Dipak). Mazumdar (Washington, DC:: World Bank, 1994. Pp. xi+388. £23.95. paperback. ISBN 0 8213 2680 5.)Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment: Volume 2: Case Studies. Edited by (Susan) Horton, (Ravi) Kanbur and (Dipak). Mazumdar (Washington, DC:: Worl…
Fertility and Population in Ireland, North and South
This paper reviews and interprets recent demographic trends and prospects in the two Irelands, North and South. We discuss both the influence of religion on demographic behaviour, and the impact of demographic trends on the distribution by religion. In the Republic of Ireland, we show that the long-standing gap in marital fertility between Catholics and others had virtually disappeared by the 1980s. In Northern Ireland the gap is still there in t…
Religion and Employment in Northern Ireland
The Importance of Positional Voting Bias in the Irish General Election of 1973
The Importance of Positional Voting Bias in the Irish General Election of 1973
Fertility and Population in Ireland, North and South
This paper reviews and interprets recent demographic trends and prospects in the two Irelands, North and South. We discuss both the influence of religion on demographic behaviour, and the impact of demographic trends on the distribution by religion. In the Republic of Ireland, we show that the long-standing gap in marital fertility between Catholics and others had virtually disappeared by the 1980s. In Northern Ireland the gap is still there in t…
Failure to take-up public healthcare entitlements: Evidence from the Medical Card system in Ireland
While population health and welfare can be improved through the provision of non-cash benefits, such as free healthcare, many welfare improving schemes have low rates of take up amongst those eligible for such a benefit. One interesting example of this is the Medical Card scheme in Ireland. Medical Cards are a non-cash benefit that provide free primary, community, and hospital care, as well as heavily subsidised prescriptions drugs, for those bel…
The Importance of Positional Voting Bias in the Irish General Election of 1973
Religion and Employment in Northern Ireland
Fertility and Population in Ireland, North and South
This paper reviews and interprets recent demographic trends and prospects in the two Irelands, North and South. We discuss both the influence of religion on demographic behaviour, and the impact of demographic trends on the distribution by religion. In the Republic of Ireland, we show that the long-standing gap in marital fertility between Catholics and others had virtually disappeared by the 1980s. In Northern Ireland the gap is still there in t…
Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment: Volume I: Issues Papers
Journal Article Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment: Volume I: Issues Papers Get access Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment: Volume I: Issues Papers. Edited by (Susan) Horton, (Ravi) Kanbur and (Dipak). Mazumdar (Washington, DC:: World Bank, 1994. Pp. xi+388. £23.95. paperback. ISBN 0 8213 2680 5.)Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment: Volume 2: Case Studies. Edited by (Susan) Horton, (Ravi) Kanbur and (Dipak). Mazumdar (Washington, DC:: Worl…
The Persistence of High Unemployment in a Small Open Labour Market: The Irish Case
This chapter contains an overview of the Irish unemployment problem. It starts with a review of existing research and presents further analysis of unemployment in a small, open labour market. The reasons for the persistence of high unemployment and the recent improvement in the labour market situation are discussed. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the lea…
Decomposing socioeconomic inequalities in childhood obesity: Evidence from Ireland
Conindex: Estimation of Concentration Indices
Concentration indices are frequently used to measure inequality in one variable over the distribution of another. Most commonly, they are applied to the measurement of socioeconomic-related inequality in health. We introduce the user-written command conindex, which provides point estimates and standard errors of a range of concentration indices. The command also graphs concentration curves (and Lorenz curves) and performs statistical inference fo…
Children of Wrath: Possession, Prophecy and the Young in Early Modern England
Irish schools, republicanism and World War One: Remembrance and memory making
This article examines the relationship between aspects of patriotism and militarism as fostered in Irish schools in the early twentieth century and their influence on past pupils who enlisted in the British Armed Forces during World War One (hereafter War), or fought as republican insurgents during the Easter Rising, 1916 (hereafter the Rising). It suggests that the complex influences of schools on pastmen who fought has been neglected and conclu…
The “Haunting Silence”: Autobiographical accounts of secondary teaching in twentieth-century Ireland
This article employs five teacher autobiographies in an attempt to examine their contribution to the history of teaching in Ireland. The article argues that such autobiographies provide significant insights into the history of the classroom and often represent subversive and disruptive narratives. As such they represent a valuable but overlooked source
‘Nobody Will Even Remember It’: An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (I)
'Nobody Will Even Remember It': An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (I)* Brendan Walsh Background This article seeks to review the contribution of teaching religious (sisters, priests and brothers) to schooling in Ireland between the 1940s and late 1970s, and principally employs the oral testimony of those who were taught by, and later taught with or as, members of religious congregations. Its purpose is to sh…
‘Nobody Will Even Remember It’: An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (II)
'Nobody Will Even Remember It': An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (II)* Brendan Walsh The impact of free education What the experience of working with the religious was like for their lay colleagues between the 1940s and the late 1970s largely depends upon time and place. Bryan MacMahon recalled how in the 1940s and 1950s a Brother would, each year, visit the school 'seeking postulants' and ask 'the children…
Schooling, the Gaelic League, and the Irish language revival in Ireland 1831–1922
In the two decades preceding Irish independence the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge, founded 1893), an organisation dedicated to the revival of the Irish language, campaigned to persuade both national and intermediate commissioners of education to reposition the language within the curriculum to reflect what the League believed was both its cultural significance and educational value. The campaign represented a fundamental principle in the risi…
Failure to take-up public healthcare entitlements: Evidence from the Medical Card system in Ireland
While population health and welfare can be improved through the provision of non-cash benefits, such as free healthcare, many welfare improving schemes have low rates of take up amongst those eligible for such a benefit. One interesting example of this is the Medical Card scheme in Ireland. Medical Cards are a non-cash benefit that provide free primary, community, and hospital care, as well as heavily subsidised prescriptions drugs, for those bel…
More sinn’d against than sinning? The intermediate system of schooling in Ireland 1878–1922
The Intermediate System of schooling, which operated in Ireland between 1878 and 1922, has, generally, been considered limited in ambition and as having generated a culture of high-stake terminal examinations. This article seeks a more nuanced understanding of the system and proposes that, despite an evolving system of secondary provision in Ireland prior to 1878, the Intermediate System provided an armature for a national system, prompted the aw…
The Intermediate Education (Ireland) Bill 1878: “A very imperfect attempt to aid Irish intermediate education”? 1
Discussions bearing upon the provision of intermediate (post-primary) schooling in Ireland in the nineteenth century were inextricably interwoven with debates regarding Catholic autonomy there. The establishment, in 1878, of the intermediate system, cannot be understood outside the context of Irish Catholic grievances, imagined or otherwise. This article excavates that theme within the context of the parliamentary debate that resulted in the pass…
Endowed Schooling in Ireland: A History of Deceit
Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, various charitable, endowed or “free” schools were established in Ireland with a view to providing schooling, initially for children of primary and later secondary school age, the latter being the subject of this article. Sometimes these schools were state initiatives, such as the parish and diocesan schools, established by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I respectively, but mostly they were voluntary unde…
Variation in day surgery rates across Irish public hospitals
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